Even with his fixation on gender neutrality, inclusiveness, and diversity; each of which he utters with such wide eyed regularity as to render all three references meaningless, I still find Justin Trudeau inspiring. So much so that he inspired me to give you this.

Gods help us, every one.

Ode to an Anthem

By LFM

An anthem is a song that tells
The story of a land,
From birth up to the day it’s sung
Right where you proudly stand.

We’ve governments rewriting ours
So that’s not what it does,
Ours tells the nation’s history
The way they wish it was.

To make it gender neutral,
More inclusive and diverse,
By governance of wishful thought
It just keeps getting worse.

They’ll labour day and night to add
Another word or two —
Diverse and all inclusive rhymes
For LGBTQ!

A tempest in a teapot though,
And worthless great to-do —
Most asked to sing O Canada,
Will have no fucking clue.

Another successful foray into that twisty turney Twilight Zoney world in which we laugh at the absurdity of Man…uh… Peoplekind… while we simultaneously feel the mildest Rising of the Gorge as we reflect on the fact that this is really happening.